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No spool. It's a torsen. So under braking the fronts lock together. Which means if you try and turn at all under braking it swaps ends.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this would seem to be an undesirable performance characteristic in a race car. And also a lot more weight and complexity than is necessary.
I am nearly as puzzled by this rather unusual arrangement of the electrical service entrance into a medium-sized apartment building I drove past earlier today. I had plenty of time to take pictures, as owing to the gay parade it took me over an hour to travel what is nominally 2.5 miles.
Our Club did a day run to Jasper, AB yesterday (about 1,000 km, round-trip). Beautiful weather, no interactions with the local constabulary and some of the prettiest sights in North America. First, we saw this:
Sunwapta Falls
Then this:
Lake Annette
And finally, this:
Gassing-up in Jasper
Even though it was close to the longest day of the summer, we still travelled the last few hundred km in the dusk/dark. It was then that I almost collided with a humungous deer at highway speeds. It would have been an unwelcome sequel to the event, about fifteen years ago, that sparked my forum name.
Well it's less weight because no rotors and calipers in the wheels. It was the first car palatov built, and he hasn't used that design since, if that tells you anything about it.
Well it's less weight because no rotors and calipers in the wheels. It was the first car palatov built, and he hasn't used that design since, if that tells you anything about it.
I get that there's less un-spring weight, but I have a hard time believing that a torsen and a pair of axles weighs less than a second caliper and rotor overall, especially as the center rotor & caliper would have to be twice as big as a pair of outboards.
And yeah, that does tell me something about it.
I found this lying around the engineering offices at my station today:
While I admit that some of our infrastructure technology is a bit old (we still use 10b-2 ethernet in some places, for instance), I'm pretty sure there are no C-64s.
I get that there's less un-spring weight, but I have a hard time believing that a torsen and a pair of axles weighs less than a second caliper and rotor overall, especially as the center rotor & caliper would have to be twice as big as a pair of outboards.
Presumably the working theory was that making it AWD would be worth the weight.
I dunno if it was built for a particular class or not, but if so then it's got a minimum weight anyway.
Some photos from the Aidan-drives-electric-sports-racer event today:
There was one guy there with an EV Miata conversion. Aside from the complete drivetrain replacement, the car looked mostly stock. Even had a carpool lane EV sticker!
The freakiest thing about this event was the lack of noise from the EVs.
Something tells me it'd be pretty easy to screw up service to those apartments for a while.
I specifically chose a neighborhood with buried power lines. I seriously get angry with a i see power lines and poles. such a legacy failure-prone approach.
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